Transforming the film business into a thriving film industry

The future development of the film industry in Sri Lanka depends entirely on the production of movies that can shatter box office records and make more than 150 percent profit. The hackneyed, outdated policy of giving loans to produce trashy Sinhala films will never bring any profitability to NFC. With the thundering success of ‘Aba’ the Sinhala film audience will not be the same again,

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The Morning Inspection

Amid the carnage there will always be those who keep life alive

Death and loss are lamented collectively as well as personally. We moved on as a collective but there’s no way to say that a forgetting or dealt-and-done-with skin has grown over the scars of that tragedy. I tell myself that a couple of millennia worth of engagement with the Buddhist notion of equanimity and a corresponding understanding of the doctrine of impermanence might have helped,

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Socio-economic scene

Urban development in rural areas

A key part of the Mahinda Chinthana was the revival of the village, eliminating inequality with new technology and new ideas. It aimed at bridging the resource gap by bringing to rural populations the facilities available to city-dwellers. Measures were taken to provide roads, electricity, irrigation, water supply and other community services, as well as developing agriculture and small scale industries projects and improving traditional industries in order to provide livelihoods,

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